Germany July 2017

Audi A3 e-Tron wins July

It seems the incentives are finally helping out this market, with over 4.200 plug-in passenger cars registered last month in Germany, the market jumped 142% YoY, pulling YTD sales to a 119% growth rate, with all the Dieselgate aftermath, it seems the German PEV market reached a tipping point, from where the current PEV  record share of 1.3% can only climb higher, maybe hitting 1.7% by year end, which, considering we are talking about the largest auto market in Europe, it's a looot of plug-ins.

Looking at July Best Selling models, the Audi A3 e-Tron (529 units, only 6 units behind the personal best) surpassed the Renault Zoe, with two BMW's, the 225xe Active Tourer and i3 also in the Top 5.

The real surprise, or not, were the 365 registrations of the Kia Soul EV, its best performance since last October, but then again, we all know what happens to them (90% show up one week later in Norway). Kia cheating the EU rules, time and time again.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Audi A3 e-Tron	529
2	Renault Zoe	413
3	Kia Soul EV	365
3	BMW i3	325
5	BMW 225xe Act. Tourer	265

Looking at the YTD ranking, unlike what is usual, it has been a rather stable month, we have to go down to #16 to see some position changes, with the BMW 530e jumping four positions, thanks to 145 units (New pb), being by far the Best Selling Rookie.

Speaking of recently landed models, the Second Generations of the Smart Fortwo ED and Porsche Panamera PHEV climbed a couple of positions, now standing at #21 and #22, respectively, while the Mini Countryman PHEV joined the Top 30, thanks to 42 units.
In the manufacturers ranking, BMW (22%, up 1%) is on the lead, followed by Mercedes, Audi and Volkswagen, all with 12% share.

Pl	Germany	July	YTD	%	'16 Pl
1 2	Renault Zoe Audi A3 e-Tron	413 529	2.842 2.734	11 10	2 4
3 4	BMW i3 BMW 225xe Active Tour.	325 265	2.385 1.891	9 7	1 10
5 6	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV Tesla Model S	82 102	1.488 1.365	6 5	6 5
7	Kia Soul EV	365	1.356	5	7
8	Volkswagen Passat GTE	164	988	4	9
9 10 11	Mercedes GLC350e Volkswagen Golf GTE Tesla Model X	138 135 78	830 771 710	3 3 3	23 8 19
12 13	Mercedes C350e e) Volkswagen e-Up!	99 90	683 658	3 3	15 17
14 15 16 17	Volkswagen e-Golf Nissan Leaf BMW 530e Mercedes B250e	113 44 145 41	645 565 470 457	2 2 2 2	12 11 N/A 18
18	Mercedes E350e	59	439	2	32
19 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 27 29 30	Hyundai Ioniq Electric Audi Q7 e-Tron Smart Fortwo ED Por. Panamera PHEV BMW 330e Volvo XC90 T8 Volvo V60 Plug-In Mercedes GLE500e Porsche Cayenne PHEV Peugeot iOn BMW i8 Mini Countryman PHEV Others	93 39 134 117 43 33 59 26 23 18 22 42 355	427 427 409 383 367 309 269 236 195 190 186 171 1.390	2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5	36 13 35 30 20 13 25 24 20 21 27 N/A
	TOTAL	4.211	26.236	100

Source: kba.de